Hi John On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:08 PM, John Deighan <[email protected]> wrote: > It is, in fact, a Debian linux system. That's not a specific system I'm > familiar with. And I did try following the instructions. It said that I > needed to install perl-doc, so I tried the obvious: > > install perl-doc > > which, of course, did not work. I knew nothing about apt-get and shouldn't > be expected to. Now, here's more bad news. I tried using apt-get and here's > what I got back: > > > root@catalyst:/home/catalyst/MyApp# apt-get install perl-doc > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Package perl-doc is not available, but is referred to by another package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or > is only available from another source > However the following packages replace it: > perl > > E: Package 'perl-doc' has no installation candidate You need to have properly configured sources. To check your sources run this command: grep -Ev '^(#| )' /etc/apt/sources.list
On my stable Debian server output is: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main If you don't hvae similar output you will need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list May be with command: sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list You can copy and paste lines from output shown above at the bottom of file, than save and exit gedit; After this run following commands: sud _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
